The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-23
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CURING DUMB ANIMALS.
A MEDICAL DEPARTMENT IN THE UNI
vERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.


chirp on seeing u stranger in the
Deans room that its yellow eyes
bulged out ON its yellow beak. The
chirp was an evidence of good faith,
and not at all for publication. cts
no use," said Clerk Salvador, mourn
fully, mindful of the effort on the
fat canary's part, "that sore throat
is chronic"
1t was sad irony Of fate. The
fat canary was q pampered boarder
in the hospital of the Department of
Veterinary Medicine of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. His fond
owner paid % cents week board
for him, and he lived in the Deans
room. Nevertheless his throat was
chronic, and all the Deans skill and
gargles could not save him. In the
same cage with the fat, chronic
canary swung and sang thin,
reckless Alsatian canary. He was
a healthy vagabond, whom Clerk
Salvador had picked up from
short-sighted owner on Darby road,
who thought he was "no good" He
sounded an ecstatic falsctto, and the
fat, chronic canary goggled his eyes
in envy.
Dean Huidekoper got the idea of
the Veterinary Department at the
college of his graduation at Abort,
Germany. SO when one rings the
bell, or rather sounds the fire alarm,
at the entrance of the hospital be-
hind the University Athletic Associ-
alton grounds at Thirty-sixth and
Pine the door is opened by groom,
who might have been translated
"from the German of Marltt" by
Mrs. Wistar. He is in brown cordu-
roy from head to foot. He is bland
and stolid, and his red-corded cap,
with the silver letters V. ID. U. p. ON
the front of it, is of the same pattern
that the Teutonic legions wear who
overwhelmed the French in the high
colored pictures on the walls of any
North Third street vein handlung.
Up stairs in the laboratory there is
q German caricature of the hospital
at Abort. Convalescent pigs are
wheeled along the gravel walks of
the picture. Another pig, conval-
scent enough to be refractory, is
being obliged to take bath. Siclly
short-horns are being famed by
watchful attendants, and invalid
pugs look languidly out from their
hospital pillows. 1t will he seen
that the humorous side of caring for
dumb beasts was quite as obvious to
the German caricaturists rs it has
been to the American.
There is a queerer thing than u
pigs easy chair in the Veterinary
Hospital. This is horse lunatic
asylum, or rather, a cell for a man
iacal equine crank. 1t is in the same
compartment with the Turkish baths.
The walls are of solid brick. 1t is
oval in shape and padded on the
inside. One of the ilat-capped
grooms was making the Turkish
bath ready for patient in the after
noon, when the fat canary tried to
chirp Mt the stranger in the Deans
room. The Turkish bath is merely
a square brick apartment, with an
apparatus for parboiling the patient.
Meantime in the same section of the
hospital, three newcomers stood i'm
mersed past their fetlocks in stone
trough full of hot water. Their
h1ofs were being prepared by this
process for examination, and they
seemed to like it.
Two students, one first and the
other a second year man, sleep in
the pharmacy on the same floor with
the horses, and il one of the brutcs
coughs in the night one the students
has to get up and look to it. The
animals owners pay 81 day fol
board, lodging and medicine, ant
extra for professional services, 81
that the University is commercially
bound to see that the beasts have
the best of care. The worst case
are provided with box stalls, o.
which there are five each with
swinging harness, in which hors
may live and die without bearing
any weight on his legs. The ordi
nary invalids have twelve handsom
single stalls for their accommoda
ton,